Arts preview 2014: star turns – A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominated for an Olivier award four years ago for her fiercely passionate take on Ibsen’s Nora, Gillian Anderson gets her teeth into another trapped heroine: Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s whiskey-sodden study of desire and self-deception. Benedict Andrews, best known for drawing a blistering performance from Cate Blanchett on stage in 2012, directs. AD Young Vic theatre, London SE1 (020-7922 2922), summer.